Tag: Bizcuits
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Bizcuits | The Expat Awards
It is the season for relatively new business awards. This month the names of winners in the inaugural G2E Asia Awards were published, and in its ... -
Bizcuits | Casual and laborious contempt
The most recent decision in relation to increasing the charges to foreign-worker mothers in hospital fees for giving birth at the public hospital is triple- whammy ... -
Bizcuits | The Sustainable Organic Consumer
This year’s Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum and Exhibition has come and gone. Water for speakers was poured from stainless- steel jugs into glasses (a pity ... -
Bizcuits | A healthy disrespect
Plastered all over my social media feeds last week were still-shots of an athlete, not just any athlete, but the athlete who apparently is closest to ... -
Bizcuits | Tough expatriates
Some girls grow up believing they can do it all. Class, status, values, economic standing and education all play their part to create a woman who ... -
Bizcuits | Weeping Walls and Wild Swans
March is depressing and Dark. One day, you wake up to the tears of an oppressing atmosphere. The walls weep in March. In adjusting to a ... -
Bizcuits | Visa Hike: for or against the powerless?
Transit visa fees from China over Macau increased last Sunday from RMB50 to RMB340 – a surge of over 600 percentage. This has come without warning ... -
Bizcuits | Nobody Wynns
Since when was gambling not synonymous with sex and vice? Marketers may position casinos as family-friendly but the ogling of pole dancers and free-flowing booze at ... -
Bizcuits | Imperfect success
Wabi-sabi is an Asian aesthetic of Zen origin that values beauty in the transient (as the ephemeral cherry blossom), in impermanence, in the incomplete, the flawed, ... -
Bizcuits | Gelato
There is this rather funky school near Bologna, Italy to which chefs and sea-changers go to learn the secrets behind putting together the elements that make ... -
Bizcuits | Wishes for a real-world holiday
Holiday time. Time to rest and relax? Time to explore? Time to experience something new – sights, sounds, smells and flavours? Holiday time means different things ... -
Bizcuits | Emotional Labour
“Sir, may I see the children to say good- bye?” On a day earlier this month a domestic helper was told by her boss that her ... -
Bizcuits | Circular is the new black
This was the year Sands launched its first fashion week showcasing international fashion brands and local designers across luxury and lifestyle wear. Red carpet glitz, an ... -
Bizcuits | Fake it until you make it
“Walk through the corridors as if you own the place. No-one will stop you”, was some very early and surprising advice I received in how to ... -
Bizcuits | Putting down roots
Sands has assessed that a sufficiently respectful time has passed to celebrate their tenth birthday, after putting aside plans for the party which were wiped from ... -
Bizcuits | The Macau confession
Life was happier, focused, simpler (some may say one of ignorance and naivety) before I started to read the news in my mid-thirties. After yesterday’s headline, ... -
Bizcuits | Education marches East
There are now 66 Chinese mainland universities listed in the 14th Times Higher Education World University Rankings published earlier this month. China, for the first time, ... -
Bizcuits | Opportunism in Hato
It is the perfect storm. Pressure is building from multiple fronts. There’s a newly found strength in our community. Since the incredible show of people-force buoyed ... -
Bizcuits | Humanity in Hato
Typhoon Hato, Signal 10, brought with it not only the wrath of nature but anger, sadness and disappointment from our community. The lack of preparation, slow ... -
Bizcuits | Bus driver culture shift
How many of us choked on our Weeties yesterday morning? Raising concerns about the quality of bus services and in particular, drivers’ skills in the legislative ... -
Bizcuits | The value of labour
As an idealist, I have preferred to deny that people and cultures value human life differently. That stark contrast in values, or at least an appearance ... -
Bizcuits | When Going Native Goes Feral
I recently embarked on one of those days that I customarily procrastinate over when the errands pile up and it is time to bite the bullet, ... -
Bizcuits | Give us this day our Daily Rag
Congratulations to Macau Daily Times upon its Tenth Anniversary, and especially to the current management and editorial team – the longest serving at the paper; you ... -
Bizcuits | CSR downstream: Business Case for #PlasticFreeJuly
Major transformations in the way businesses interact with their communities and the acceptance of responsibilities to all stakeholders have been spearheaded by major disruptions, critical incidents ... -
Bizcuits | Toilet Paper Day
I received an email to remind me that it was National Toilet Paper Day yesterday, in Australia. Apparently it comes to pass on 26 August in ... -
Bizcuits | G2E Asia USA
G2E Asia has been on in Macau this week. The expo expanded into Asia in 2007 from its Las Vegas foundation at a time when there ... -
Bizcuits | Taxed for standing still
Picture the queue of cars on a typical weekend heading into the carpark under the Workers’ Stadium at the Border Gate. It is tedious at the ... -
Bizcuits | Loving and Leaving Macau: Forewarned is forearmed
There are little signs in everyday life, which tell us that we have become used to living in Macau. One day you find that driving around ... -
Bizcuits | Leadership down
The pivotal role of leadership is in question. Have you been in leadership courses at university, learnt about it in management studies at school, or sat ... -
Bizcuits | Award inflation
Among the peculiarities of Macau is what seems an exaggerated lauding of certain individuals. In public we tend to bestow labels of “expert”, “specialist”, “media mogul”, ... -
Bizcuits | Dragons Abreast
Ideas have their own time, I’ve been told. In late 2013, I was stopped by a gentleman while overseas who notices my Macau-emblazoned sports slicker. He ... -
Bizcuits | That ludicrous strawberry
Ever since the widely publicised plastic flotsam in the Macau/Hong Kong ferry propeller incident last June which circuitously ushered me to the Plastic-Free July Challenge, I ... -
Bizcuits | Bad taxis, bad Macau tourism
The first sign of the trouble was on Facebook – a lady seeking advice for her friends, a British/Filipino couple, embroiled in another Macau taxi saga. ... -
Bizcuits | Take it from him, giving works
Servant leadership is one of those idealistic concepts that you either know exists because you’ve been privileged to experience it, hold it as an ideal but ... -
Bizcuits | Ready, set… abort fire
I am in the middle of a malaise of post-holiday blues. The inertia is taking its toll on any focus and drive that I had in ...
